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Sun Sep 21 2003

Confs: Syntax/Paris,France;General Ling/Montreal, CAN

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Approaching Asymmetry at the Interfaces
Short Title: AAI
Date: 24-Oct-2003 - 25-Oct-2003
Location: Montreal, Canada
Contact: Anna Maria Di Sciullo
Contact Email: di_sciullo.anne-marieuqam.ca
Meeting URL: http://www.asymmetryproject.uqam.ca
Linguistic Sub-field: General Linguistics
Meeting Description: The fact that asymmetric relations are privileged
relations in the derivation of linguistic expressions has been
demonstrated in various works in syntax, phonology and morphology. The
role of these relations at the interfaces remains nevertheless an open
question. What makes the contact between the expressions generated by
the grammar and the external systems, C-I and SM, possible at all?
That asymmetry would enable this contact would be revealing of a core
property of the subsystems of cognition. The advent of the Minimalist
Program led to the abandonment of the Y model and to the adoption of a
phase model to derivation, spell-out, and interpretation. In this
framework, legibility conditions are what make grammars usable by the
performance systems. The question arises whether purely formal
properties of relations, such as asymmetry, contribute to
legibility. If configurational asymmetry does have such a
contribution, theoretical consequences can be drawn, for example, with
respect to the legibility of phases, and to the restrictions on their
shape and size. Empirical predictions can be made with respect to
binding and scope relations at LF as well as with respect to the
assignment of nuclear stress and linearization at PF. Also, if
configurational asymmetry is determinant for both the semantic (LF)
and the phonetic (PF) phases, restricted legibility interactions can
be envisioned between LF and PF, for example, in the case of Focus
assignment and binding relations, or with respect to the articulation
of force and intonation. Economy considerations arise in the process,
for example, with respect to the hierarchical articulation of the left
periphery and to the issue regarding whether or not the triggering
forces should be reduced to a minimum. October 24
9:00- 9:50
Richard Kayne,Invited Speaker
New York University
Antisymmetry, Adpositions and Remnant Movement
9:50-10:20
Jaklin Kornfilt, Syracuse University
Two Asymmetries in Relative Clauses
10:20-10:30 Break
10:30-11:00
Heejeong Ko, MIT
Asymmetry in Scrambling and Cyclic Spell-out
11:00-11:30
Yoichi Miyamoto, Osaka University
A Derivational Approach to the Interpretation of Quantifiers in
Japanese Scrambling
11:30-12:00
Marc Richards, University of Cambridge
Desymmetrization: Parametric Variation at the PF-Interface
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:20
Manuela Ambar, Invited Speaker
University of Lisbon
On Some Special Adverbs, Word order and CP
14:20-14:50
Edit Jakab, UQAM
Agreement, Tense, Restructuring.
The Licensing of Hungarian Inflected Infinitives
14:50-15:20
Ricardo Etxepare, CNRS,
Bayonne Asymmetries in Constituent Negation in Spanish
15 :20-15 :30 Break
15:30-16:00
Gabriela Alboiu, York University
Interfaces and the OCC Asymmetry
16:00-16:30
Aritz Irurtzun, University of Basque Country
Derivational Approach to the Focus Structure
16:30-17:00
Mayumi Hosono, University of Durham Defocalization
Strategy: Suppression of a Phonetic Form in the Canonically Realized
Position
October 25
9:00-9:50
Juan Uriagereka, Invited Speaker
University of Maryland and The University of the Basque Country
Spell-out Consequences
9:50-10:20
Arsalan Kahnemuyipour, University of Toronto Multiple
Spell-Out and Nuclear Stress
10:20-10:50
Kayono Shiobara, University of British Columbia
Prosodic Phases and Left-to-Right Structure Building
10:50-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30
Dana Isac, Concordia University
On the Wide Scope Effects of Bare Nouns
11:30-12:00
Karine Megerdoomian, Inxight Software, Inc Asymmetries in
Form and Meaning: Surface Realization and Interface Conditions
12:00-12:30
Luka Szucsich, University at Leipzig
Asymmetric and Symmetric Relations within Theta-Domain and Aspectual
Interpretation
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:00-14:50
Edwin Williams, Invited Speaker
Princeton University
The Word/Phrase Asymmetry
14:50-15:20
Rose-Marie D�chaine, UBC and Mireille Tremblay,
Queens University Minimal Lexical Items
15:20-15:50
Anna Maria Di Sciullo, UQAM
Morphological Domains
15:50-16:00 Break
16:00-16:30
Fr�d�ric Mailhot and Charles Reiss Concordia
University Precedence, Asymmetry and Locality in Vowel Harmony
16:30-17:00
Ivan Chow, University of Toronto Ambiguity Resolution in
French by way of Melodic Contour: An Acoustic Study
Alternates :
Ahmad Moinzadeh, University of Isfahan
An Antisymmetric, Minimalist Approach to Persian Phrase Structure
Mayumi Hosono
University of Durham
Defocalization Strategy in Merge Parallelism of Clitic Left
Dislocation with Null Object Construction